Aaron earned a Bachelor's degree in Asian Studies, with a minor in Japanese, at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. Aaron is a graduate of the University of Reading in 2011, where he earned an MA in typeface design. His graduation typeface was Saja (2011), which covered Latin and Korean. In the Fall of 2011, he joined the Microsoft Typography team.

ACAF stands for Ascender Compact Asian Fonts. Their blurb at the launch in 2006: ACAF uses proprietary techniques to render the complex ideographs found in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts. By using component outlines, versus entire character outlines, ACAF offers significant benefits over standard TrueType or OpenType font formats. And unlike other compact font formats, such as stroke or stick fonts, the quality of Ascender Compact Asian Fonts is such that no embedded bitmaps are necessary for typical screen sizes. This savings in space by reusing pierces of font outlines is useful for high quality (scalable) fonts on mobile devices and digital TVs. [Google]
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Vendor of Korean, Japanese and Chinese software, including font packs for Mac and PC. AsiaSoft Inc./AsiaTech Inc. is located in Vero Beach, FL. Their font Urdu Naskh Asiatype (2001) for Urdu can be found here and here. Pashto Kror Asiatype (1994-2002) is here. [Google]
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Buddhist monk. Korean printer of the first book that used movable metal type, in 1372 during the Goryeo Dynasty. He lived from 1298 until 1374. Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests' Zen Teachings. [Google]
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From Bitstream's web page: "Bitstream Cyberbit is our award-winning international font. Based on one of our most popular and readable type designs (Dutch 801 BT [note: Bitstream's version of Times and Times New Roman]), it includes all the typographic characters for most of the world's major languages. Cyberbit is now available! The product release includes the roman weight of Dutch 801 BT, a "serif" font. (A serif font has small finishing strokes at the end of the main stems, arms, and tails of characters, while a sanserif font does not.) The font is in TrueType format for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Future releases will provide support for "sanserif" typefaces, other platforms, other font formats, and even more languages. Bitstream Cyberbit is a work in progress. Bitstream is now distributing the roman weight of Cyberbit, free of charge, over the Internet! Remember, this release is in TrueType format for Windows 95 and Windows NT". --- Well, Bitstream no longer offers the font. It is still out there however. Try here, here, here, or here. Has these unicode ranges: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Spacing Modifier Letters, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew Extended (A and B blocks combined), Thai, Latin Extended Additional, General Punctuation, Currency Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Dingbats, Alphabetic Presentation Forms, Combining Diacritical Marks, Enclosed Alphanumerics, Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-A and -B, CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Symbols and Punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Hangul Compatibility Jamo, Enclosed CJK Letters and Months, CJK Compatibility, Hangul, CJK Unified Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Forms, Small Form Variants, and Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms. [Google]
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South Korean type designer who graduated from the MATD program at the University of reading in 2013. He writes about his graduation typeface Barbari, which covers Latin and Hangul, and has a range of sans and serif styles: The brush style was chosen to find a harmonization point between the Hangul and the Latin alphabet, solving the problems with different functions of the brush for each script. The Hangul brush script implies tradition and seriousness, while Latin follows the rhythmical movement of the human hand. Barbari is an interim result of this approach, intended for bilingual text in magazines and journals. [Google]
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Brian Stell works in the Font and Text team within Google's Internationalization Engineering group. He has been focused on engineering to make web fonts fast for all languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: Roboto: faster than a speeding bullet. The abstract sounds interesting: This talk looks at the current status of Google's work to deliver fonts 'instantly' to Chrome users. With 'instant' fonts, website designers no longer have to choose between web fonts (that slow the site down) or 'web safe' fonts (that are only available in limited styles). Imagine being free to use your branding fonts in extra-light, book, normal, medium, bold, or ultra-bold - with italic, condensed, and slab variants. A brief overview of how the technology works is presented along with references to more information. Also discussed are efforts to make this work on other major browsers. [Google]
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Yidao Cai's free software. Most interesting is CNPRINT: "CNPRINT is a utility to print Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) text (or convert to PostScript) under DOS, VMS and UNIX systems. It works just as a print command on your system. Currently GB, Hz, zW, BIG5, CNS, JIS, EUC, Shift-JIS, KSC, UTF8, UTF7 and UTF16 formats are supported. With its full Unicode support, it should be able to print other language (e.g. Thai, Vietnames, Arabic as well)." Also, MSHei and MSSong truetype fonts for Chinese, Korean and Japanese, developed by Stone Corporation, Zhuhai, China. [Google]
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Seoul-based graphic designer who spent some time in London. Behance link. As an experiment, he took a standard font, and connected the letters using a certain geometric algorithm to get a special effect. More analytic geometry went into the design of the squarish but rounded display typeface Box (2010). [Google]
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Some Taiwanese Free Software Foundation supporters designed a number of free Chinese truetype fonts under the guidance of Edward J. Lee between 1999 and 2005. People involved include Tsong-Min Wu and Tsong-Huey Wu. As of 2005, the fonts are cwTeXFangSong, cwTeXHeiBold, cwTeXKai, cwTeXMing, cwTeXYen. All fonts cover Chinese, Korean and Latin as well. The project is part of CLE (Chinese GNU/Linux Extensions) located in Taiwan. The fonts are especially useful with cwTeX. [Google]
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In 2013, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham jointly designed the layered type system Core Circus---as a reaction to the hugely successful Trend typeface by Latinotype, I guess. The slab version is Core Magic (2014). See also Core Circus Rough (2014) and Core Magic Rough (2014), both jointly designed by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim. Core Slab M (2013) is a 31-style companion of Core Sans M---it is a soft rounded slab with some seriffy tails mixed in with standard slab terminals. Core Mellow (2013) is a condensed organic rounded sans family that comes in 21 weights.

In 2014, Eugenie Kang (London, UK) and Bhavik Samani cooperated on the experimental United typeface. They used five basic shapes to draw al the letters of the Latin and Hangul alphabets. [Google]
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During her studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Long Island City, NY-based Eunsung Do created Fontissimo (2014, a Peignotian typeface) and Ink (2014, a plump didone typeface). In 2011 and 2012, she studied interior design at Kookmin University in Korea. [Google]
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Chinese-Japanese-Korean fonts for figlet, a GNU Linux program by Francesco Tapparo. "Figlet is a program that creates large characters out of ordinary screen characters. It can create characters in many different styles and can kern and "smush" these characters together in various ways. Figlet output is generally reminiscent of the sort of "signatures" many people like to put at the end of e-mail and Usenet messages. " Fonts included: Fang Song Ti, Song Ti, CNS, Jiskan 16, Hanglg16, Kanglm16. [Google]
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"The package distributed in this site provides the patches for gs6.50 to handle CJK (Traditional/Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean) TrueType fonts as CID-keyed fonts and some improvements upon CID-keyed font handler in gs6.50. We also aim to add our results to the original Aladdin/Artifex ghostscript. " The developers are Toshiya Suzuki, Masatake Yamato, Taiji Yamada, Hideyuki Suzuki. [Google]
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Seoul-based graphic designer. In 2008, he designed Plamodel (LED font), Layer (experimental font), and Piece (octagonal and minimalist). His type designs in 2009 include Glasses (letters using frames of glasses).

The Korean alphabet is called Hangul or Hangeul. Each letter in Hangeul indicates an individual sound or phoneme. Hangeul is an alphabet system proposed by King Sejong in 1443 during the Joseon dynasty---it was initially called Hunminjeongeum ("the right sound to teach the people"). King Sejong tried to make an alphabet that matched the structure of Korean, and was easy to learn and write. In the end, there were 28 letters (11 vowels and 17 consonants). Useless letters were deleted and useful ones were added, resulting in 40 letters (21 vowels and 19 consonants). [Google]
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Specs. "In a bitmap font for Chinese or a number of other languages, each character takes up the same amount of space, so such fonts are often provided as binary files containing only bitmaps. An HBF file is a human-readable text file describing a font of this type, and thus providing a uniform interface. " [Google]
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From the FontFont site: Hyun Cho is an art director in Seoul, South Korea. He studied graphic design at the Yale University School of Art and obtained a BFA in visual communication design at the Kyung Won University. He has won several design awards in the US, Korea and Germany. The work on his first FontFont typeface FF Tronic was done together with his friend Min Choi, also a Korean graphic designer.

Born in Republic of Korea, Hyun Guk Ryu obtained a Ph.D. at National Kyushu Institute of Technology Graduate School of Design. Presently, he teaches type design and design history at National University Corporation Tsukuba University of Technology Faculty of Industrial. His professional studies are focused in typography and design history of Korean (Haeseo Style), Chinese (Ming Style), and the manufacturing of Latin alphabets for the multilingual typesetting in 19th century Japan and China.

In 2013, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham jointly designed the layered type system Core Circus---as a reaction to the hugely successful Trend typeface by Latinotype, I guess. The slab version is Core Magic (2014). Core Slab M (2013) is a 31-style companion of Core Sans M---it is a soft rounded slab with some seriffy tails mixed in with standard slab terminals. Core Mellow (2013) is a condensed organic rounded sans family that comes in 21 weights.

"A new generation of Asian language software for Windows. RichWin is an add-on software that fits between Non-Chinese Windows and other Windows applications, enabling users to process the two-byte languages Chinese, Japanese and Korean on non-Chinese Windows and on other platforms. It provides 30 different Chinese fonts." For more info, email Bruce Liu. [Google]
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Jaehong is a part-time typography professor at Sejong University. From 2008 until 2012, she was part-time typography professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Kookmin University, Hongik University, Inha University, and Seoul Digital University. She is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Craft and Design, Graduate School of Seoul National University, and received her M.A. and B.A. from the same place.

James Zachman (Chicago, IL) created the marker typeface Natalie (2012), which is sufficiently well-mannered for uses on architectural plans and technical or semi-official presentations. [Google]
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Korean designer of Ficta (2014), a humanist Latin, Greek and Hangul text typeface developed during Jeongmin's studies towards a Masters Degree in Type Design at the University of Reading in 2014. [Google]
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Ji Byul Lee was born in Korea in 1971. He created Univers Revolved by taking the capitals of the alphabet, rotating them, and tilting the result. A true 3-d typeface. Free download. Univers Revolved is also a book, published by Harry N. Abrams in 2004. This typeface was done for Neo2 Magazine. Alternate URL. [Google]
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Graduate of Seoul Women's University (2003), School of Visual Arts (New York, 2007: BFA) and Parsons The New School of Design (New York, 2011: MFA). She designed an unnamed display typeface in 2011. [Google]
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After graduating from Seoul National University's Department of Visual Communication Design, Jiwon Yu worked as a book designer at Minumsa Publishing Group. She went on to study typography at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany. After graduation, she returned to Korea and worked as a senior researcher at Sandoll Communications. She wrote and designed the specimens of the Hangul typefaces in the Sandoll Neo Series. Currently she is a typographer and a research professor at Hongik University in Korea. Jiwon occasionally writes columns on typography and classical music.

During her studies at Ewha Womens University in Seoul, Korea, Ji-young Jeon created a number of Latin fonts around the theme of Chang-sai, or Korean (octagonal, rhombic) door patterns. [Google]
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Graphic designer in Manchester, UK, who created the hexagonal typeface Metabolist in 2014. He explains: Typeface Design based upon an architectural movement in Japan during the 1960's called Metabolism. It attempted to merge architectural megastructures with ideas of biological and organic growth. One famous example of this is the Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa (1972, Tokyo).

Korean type designer, 1916-1988. Jungho Choi is considered one of the greatest Korean type designers, and his work is used to teach typeface design in Korean universities. SM Myungjo Std was designed by Jungho Choi (1916-1988) with help from Soonho Kwon in 1988 for Doosan Donga, the largest publisher in Korea. Professor Sangsoo Ahn revised the design for SoftMagic. SM Myungjo Std (Adobe, 1996-2011) was designed to enhance readability, and its stroke structure is optimized for digital reproduction. SM Myungjo Std is commonly used for body text by Korean magazines. He also designed the Hangul typeface SM Gothic in 1988 for Doosan Donga, the largest publisher in Korea, with Soonho Kwon. Adobe's version of SM Gothic is dated 1996-2011. [Google]
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Extensive set of X11 and PS fonts. At the same archive, there's another Hangul to PS translator hpscat in /incoming/hangul and /pub/hangul/print. (KAIST archive is mirrored at ftp://under3.kisa.org in the US,ftp://ftp.nuri.net in Korea and ftp://ftp.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Hangul in Germany). [Google]
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Dr. Ken Lunde is Manager of CJKV Type Development at Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA. He holds a Ph.D. (1994) in Linguistics from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wrote Understanding Japanese Information Processing (O'Reilly&Associates, 1993), and CJKV Information Processing (O'Reilly&Associates, 1999). He also wrote CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean&Vietnamese Computing (O'Reilly). In 2010, Adobe will release the first genuinely proportional Japanese font, Kazuraki (by Japanese type designer Ryoko Nishizuka), which was developed at Adobe in 2009 under his management.

Ken managed the Source Han Sans project---these are open source fonts released in 2014 by Adobe and Google for Japanese, Chinese and Korean. [Google]
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Links to Korean fonts and font software. Includes six Type 1 Mac or PC fonts for free download: these are Frank's Breve fonts that allow the transcription of Korean and Japanese according to the systems of McCune-Reischauer and Hepburn. Mainly Mac-oriented page. [Google]
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J.-C. Loubet del Bayle sketches the development of Pan Tchel in 1446, a phonetic language introduced by an order of king Sejong (1419-1451). Hangul ("the grand writing") developed from that by combining consonants and vowels into one roughly square-shaped box, so Hangul is a syllabic way of writing, just like hiragana in Japan. [Google]
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A corporate URW typeface family published in 2009. The 17-font family sells for nearly 10,000 Euros. There are sans, serif, semi-sans and semi-serif subfamilies. This family started out as a design for the Merck company. URW writes: URW++ is authorized by Merck KGaA to deliver the Merck corporate typeface family for a license fee to external users, i.e. Merck KGaA suppliers such as ad agencies, signmakers and the like. The Merck corporate typefaces are available in four different volumes with correspondingly multi lingual character encoding. All Merck Global Fonts contain approximately over 45,000 glyphs including the complete CJK glyph set (China, Japan and Korea). Besides all Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs as well as the complete CJK glyph set also cover Japanese Katakana and Hiragana plus Korean Hangual syllables. Furthermore they are supporting Thai and Arabic (including Farsi and Urdu) plus Hebrew and Vietnamese as well. [Google]
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In 2013, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham jointly designed the layered type system Core Circus---as a reaction to the hugely successful Trend typeface by Latinotype, I guess. The slab version is Core Magic (2014). See also Core Circus Rough (2014) and Core Magic Rough (2014), both jointly designed by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim. Core Slab M (2013) is a 31-style companion of Core Sans M---it is a soft rounded slab with some seriffy tails mixed in with standard slab terminals. Core Mellow (2013) is a condensed organic rounded sans family that comes in 21 weights.

Monotype states: Traditional Asian TrueType fonts require megabytes of storage too much for most memory-restricted or low-resolution devices. Yet, storage requirements can be reduced 90 percent or more using our stroke-based fonts. For example, a standard GB 2312 Simplified Chinese TrueType font with 7,663 characters is about 2.7 MB. Our stroke font equivalent is under 250 KB. Cell phones, set-top boxes, PDAs, most other wireless devices and even operating systems benefit from stroke-based fonts. Our fully scalable stroke-based fonts consist of composite strokes or graphemes. These simple shapes appear as pen strokes or lines and are used repeatedly to build complex East Asian characters. Graphemes offer huge storage savings. The same graphemes are used to construct various characters that can add up to thousands in a single font. Another major advantage lies in the technologys simplicity: less than half the number of points are needed to render characters much less than building characters using traditional outlines where points are located on the edges of shapes rather than at the centerlines. Our stroke-based fonts support both native and Unicode encodings and are available for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts. [Google]
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Nicolas Noh is the Korean codesigner, with Doo-yul Kwak, of the Latin/Hangul script font Nanum Brush Script (2010, NHN Corporation), which is an Apple system font. In 2011, with Bruce Kwon and Sung-woo Choi, he codesigned the Apple system font Nanum Gothic (a sans for Latin, Chinese, Japanese and Hangul, NHN Corporation).

Born in Seoul, Nina Lee Storm moved to Denmark in 1975, where she works as a freelance type designer. She designed Storm Sans at Agfa/Monotype in 2000. She designed Noa for use on television and computer screens during the late 1990s. This tall x-height short-ascendered typeface was published by Linotype in 2004.

Ok Kyung Yoon (b. 1975, South Korea) works and lives in Paris. After studying at the Fine Art School in Mulhouse, she started as a freelance graphic designer and works in parallel with her studies at the EnsadLab, notably with the institutions of contemporary art like the Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain/FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais in France or La Fundación ArtAids, Barcelona. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. In 2009-2010, with fellow ENSAD students Anthony Dathy, Perrine Saint Martin and Timm Borg, she developed a complete family of fonts that extend blackletter and roman faces by Ulrich Gering that go back to the 1470s. [Google]
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Graduate of RISD, 2012, who worked at the Walker Art Center in New York. Seoul, Korea-based designer and art director. Creator of the Latin text typeface Lancet Wounded (2012) and of the grunge experimental typeface ZXX (2012, free). Social commentary: As a reaction to government surveillance, the ZXX typeface is embedded with disruptive designs that are meant to combat optical character recognition processes. The four options for online communications camouflage [called XED, Noise, False, and Camo] each have characteristics that keep them legible to humans, but baffling to machines. Sang Mun: The project started with a genuine question: How can we conceal our fundamental thoughts from artificial intelligences and those who deploy them? [Google]
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Seung Yoon Lee is a Research Professor at Design Major, Seoul National University since 2010, and her main research interests are typography, editorial design and new media. Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Typography in marginal spaces. [Google]
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Korean type designer. SM Myungjo Std (Adobe) is a Hangul font that was designed by Jungho Choi (1916-1988) with help from Soonho Kwon in 1988 for Doosan Donga, the largest publisher in Korea. He also designed the Hangul typeface SM Gothic in 1988 for Doosan Donga, the largest publisher in Korea, with Soonho Kwon. Adobe's version of SM Gothic is dated 1996-2011. [Google]
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In July 2014, Adobe and Google jointly announced the publication of the free Asian typeface family Source Han Sans for Chinese (traditional (both Taiwan and Hong Kong) and simplified), Japanese, Korean, Greek, Cyrillic and Latin. This project, based on designs originally due to Ryoko Nishizuka, a senior Adobe designer in Tokyo, started in 2010. The fonts and original code are downloadable from SourceForge and GitHub. Blog page at Typekit. Blog post at Google. The other name for the family, Noto Sans CJK, is used by Google.The open source license even permits modification of the glyphs.

The 42 fonts are designed for small devices, and thus, the glyphs are monolinear and simple. Each font weight in the family has a total of 65,535 glyphs (the maximum number of characters supported in the OpenType format), and the entire family contains just under half a million total glyphs. Adobe sought expertise from foundries such as Iwata Corp to expand the Japanese glyph selection, Sandoll Communication, designer of Korean Hangul and Changzhou SinoType, Adobe's longtime collaborator in China.

On the Google side of the project, where the fonts are added to the Noto family (which covers all major languages of the world and many others, including European, African, Middle Eastern, Indic, South and Southeast Asian, Central Asian, American, and East Asian languages, and, since the joint release with Adobe in 2014, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and minority languages related to them), users can download all Noto fonts freely in a 43 MB file.

Sun Jung is a graphic designer originally from South Korea. She graduated BA in graphic design at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK), Den Haag, in 2006. Before her second stint at KABK, resulting in a Masters degree in type design, she worked in the fields of advertising and graphic design. Creator of Superhero (2011) and a few other experimental faces. [Google]
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A truetype tool by UniDoc System. TrueKeys is the only font conversion utility that handles Chinese/Japanese/Korean TrueType font conversion between Windows and Mac OS platforms. Can also be used to add Unicode support (required for OS X) to older fonts that don't have it. US$50, and crippled free demo. An OS X version is available. The manufacturer reports: "TrueKeys is a Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK) 2-byte truetype font conversion utilities. What makes it different from other truetype utilities such as TTConvert 1.5 and TrueConvert 0.3b is that it generates its own cmap table for specified language encoding, and assemble the original font data into a new truetype. This strategy corrects some common PC font problems such as no Mac cmap table support, etc. When TTConvert or TrueConvert does not work for your font, you should seriously try TrueKeys. TrueKeys v3.5 is guarenteed to work with any Mac format CJK truetypes and Windows format truetypes (including TTC format). TrueKeys v3.6 is currently in beta, supporting both pre-MacOS 9 and MacOS X platform." [Google]
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Free Hangul fonts: 09t@, Antiqu@rk, Bandal, Eunjin, Ongdalsam, all made in 2004 by A. Lee. Eunjin and Ongdalsam are general purpose Hangul truetype fonts and contain ascii and Korean syllable characters. These fonts are looks good in 12px (9pt in 96dpi screen) size without antialiasing. 09t@ is not a real Hangul font. It is specially designed truetype ascii font in the manner of Hangul 3-bul-sik typewriter which was invented by Ph.D Kong Byeong-woo. Alternate URL. See also here. [Google]
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At this Korean font site, we find free Windows truetype assemblers and disassemblers, and several free truetype fonts called UnBatang (2003, Koaunghi Un), a full Latin/Cyrillic/kana/kanji/hangul text face, made by Koaunghi Un from 1998-2003. [Google]
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Un-fonts come with the HLaTeX package as type1 fonts. They were designed in 1998 by Koaunghi Un and are under a general GNU public license. Truetype conversions by Won-kyu Park in 2003. Alternate URL. Alternate URL. The package has

Download UnionWay AsianSuite 97 for a 60-day free trial: it includes fonts for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The registration procedure and mode of providing the files (exe) make this site not worth visiting for the free downloads at least. [Google]
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URW++ Design&Development GmbH is a Hamburg-based foundry established in 1995 by Svend Bang, Hans-Jochen Lau, Peter Rosenfeld, and Jürgen Willrodt. URW stands for Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber, named after Gerhard Rubow and Rudolf Weber, cofounders of the original URW company from which urw++ evolved. It offers a whole range of font services and has an extensive (7000+) font library. At the basis of the early development of many classy PostScript fonts. For example, in 1999, URW++ donated the 35 core PostScript fonts (renamed) under the GNU GPL license to the Ghostscript project. The great 3000-font CD costs about 2000DM. Other CDs are more expensive: on the ITF CD, each font is about 100DM! URW sells fonts and font families with complete rights (you can change, resell, embed, anything, except use the original name), with examples ranging from 2k for a complete family of 12 to 5k for a collection of 250 fonts. This practice continues until today: URW++ thus provides a great service to software developers who want to include high-quality typefaces in their software applications. URW has offices in many countries. In the first decade of the 21st century, freelance type designer Ralph M. Unger contributed most frequently to the URW library. OpenType collection guide (in PDF).

WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a huge unicode-compatible Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Latin (CJK) truetype font, available for free under the GNU license. From the web page: The WenQuanYi Zen Hei font is a Chinese (or CJK) outline font with Hei Ti style (a sans-serif style) Hanzi glyphs. This font is developed for general purpose use of Chinese for formating, printing and on-screen display. The non-Hanzi glyphs, including Latin, extended Latin, kana etc were merged from cmunss.ttf from the CM-Unicode project, and mplus-1p-medium.ttf from the M+ project. The embedded WenQuanYi bitmap song fonts were developed by WenQuanYi contributors and Qianqian Fang based on the bitmap fonts by firefly. WenQuanYi Zen Hei contains arguably the largest number of Chinese Hanzi glyphs of all known open-source outline Chinese fonts: it has 20194 Hanzi glyphs covering 97% of the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographics. This font provides full coverage to the required code points for zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, zh_hk and zh_mo locales. The total vector glyphs in this font is over 35000 including Latin characters, Japanese kanas, hanguls and symbols from many other languages. Developers:

Qianqian Fang: Developer for online and off-line stroke decomposition software, server-side scripts and database, software for vector glyph generation, font creation and version control, all the spline Hanzi glyphs, document and tutorial contributors and release manager. Incredibly, Qianqian Fang holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Dartmouth (2004) and is now a full-time biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a huge unicode-compatible Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Latin (CJK) truetype font, available for free under the Gnu license. From the web page: The WenQuanYi Zen Hei font is a Chinese (or CJK) outline font with Hei Ti style (a sans-serif style) Hanzi glyphs. This font is developed for general purpose use of Chinese for formating, printing and on-screen display. The non-Hanzi glyphs, including Latin, extended Latin, kana etc were merged from cmunss.ttf from the CM-Unicode project, and mplus-1p-medium.ttf from the M+ project. The embedded WenQuanYi bitmap song fonts were developed by WenQuanYi contributors and Qianqian Fang based on the bitmap fonts by firefly. WenQuanYi Zen Hei contains arguably the largest number of Chinese Hanzi glyphs of all known open-source outline Chinese fonts: it has 20194 Hanzi glyphs covering 97% of the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographics. This font provides full coverage to the required code points for zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, zh_hk and zh_mo locales. The total vector glyphs in this font is over 35000 including Latin characters, Japanese kanas, hanguls and symbols from many other languages. Developers:

Qianqian Fang: Developer for online and off-line stroke decomposition software, server-side scripts and database, software for vector glyph generation, font creation and version control, all the spline Hanzi glyphs, document and tutorial contributors and release manager. Incredibly, Qianqian Fang holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Dartmouth (2004) and is now a full-time biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Graduate of Kookmin University. Seoul-based designer of the small device / smartphone font family Chameli Sans (2015, free). It has optical device-dependent sizing, and is according to its designer better suited than Tizen OS. Chameli is based on Google's Roboto (2011). [Google]
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Daegu, South Kore-based designer (b. 1992) of the hand-printed Latin typeface Soljik Dambaek (2013, free) and the squarish typeface Ylee Polymnia Framed (2013). He started studying mathematics at McGill University in Montreal in 2011.

In 2014, he created the hyper-curly typeface Ylee Dalkom Roll Cake and the handwriting typeface Ylee Mortal Heart Immortal Memory.

HYGungSoStd-Bold (1996-2011, Adobe) was designed by Youngsook Oh for calligraphic uses, and for showing old-style hangul. Its glyphs are highly readable, and convey a hand-written style. [Google]
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Goryeo Dynasty minister Choe Yun-ui of Korea is credited with publishing the first book printed with metal movable type in 1234. This book, Sangjeong yemun, wdescribed the manners of the Korean court from ancient times through the 1234. He lived from 1102 until 1162. [Google]
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